An amazing talk delivered by Marja Brandon at Microsoft in 2004. Marja believed that education was failing to take advantage of advances in neuroscience that have led us to better understand how we learn. She founded a school and based teaching around 4 core skills
- Critical and creative thinking
- Problem posing and solving
- Bold thinking – don’t think outside the box, live outside the box
- Community connectedness – connect everything they do to the real world
Marja built a new school curriculum based around 9 brain rules…
Another re:post worth sharing. Cultural Offering covers yet another article claiming computers and the Internet are ruining our brains – You’ll melt your brain. The post includes a couple of great quotes: “Will Twitter make us communicate in 140 characters or less? Not a bad idea, now that I ponder it” I’ve written about these [...]
At the end of June, I shared a link in Google Reader – The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete The short version of what’s in the article: Correlation between data does not guarantee causation. If X increases when Y increases, they share correlation. But we don’t know that an [...]
Over the past month, I’ve listened to Baroness Susan Greenfield three times. First, reading an article in The Sunday Times. Second, in the audience at one of her talks. Third, hearing an interview on the radio. The same topic came up at all three events (not surprising, since she has a new book to promote) [...]
Source: ‘Brainwave boogie-woogie‘, New Scientist Magazine, 24 December 2005 Waveband name Frequency (Hz) Associated with Slow waves below 1 Preparing to move a muscle Delta waves 1 to 3 Deep sleep Theta waves 3 to 7 Drowsiness, trance states and early sleep Alpha waves 7 to 12 Relaxed but awake Beta waves 12 to 30 [...]
